By Melody Smith|November 17th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on New Release Enhances Treatment of Metadata
The PASS Summit 2010 was the location for expressor software to release version 3.0 of its affordable, enterprise-class data integration platform. expressor 3.0 is a comprehensive design, development and deployment platform available in three editions and tailored to support the full range of data integration applications, from tactical data migrations to large enterprise data warehouses and strategic, predictive analytics.
By Melody Smith|November 16th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Making Australian Government Information Findable
The final version of data.australia.gov dataset repository is soon to be released and the result could be streamlined information. The new repository will replace the beta version first released by the Gov 2.0 Taskforce in September 2009 to centrally host datasets from federal, state and territory governments where applicable.
By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Book Publishing – What About the Standards?
The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?
By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Dell’s Latest Acquisition Will Help Manage the Clouds
Dell has agreed to purchase Boomi and says this acquisition will help it address what it terms “one of the top barriers to cloud adoption” – managing and integrating cloud-based applications with existing applications and databases.
By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Standards, Taxonomy|1 Comment
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T's recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as "an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices."
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Contract Management Software Depends on Metadata Library
Dolphin Software has launched the latest version of its contract management software, Dolphin Contract Manager 2.0 for Microsoft SharePoint. This new version enables legacy contracts to be captured and integrated into the current contract management system and also makes contract management more ‘plug and play’ for large organizations.
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 2010|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on BigTent Acquired by Federated Media
Federated Media Publishing has acquired BigTent, the leading platform for trusted parenting groups. Millions rely on BigTent to stay connected with local school, community and shared-interest groups.
By Melody Smith|November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, storage|Comments Off on Google of Audio Digitizing
One-half million audio recordings have been digitized by Memnon Archiving Systems relying on NOA systems. NOA systems support multiple Memnon projects, including migration of 250,000 digital audio tapes for Danish Radio and 350,000 CDs for BnF.
By Melody Smith|November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Patent Awarded to Guid
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.
By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Digital Storage Streamlines Museum Data
London’s Imperial War Museum is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. As part of the process, they implemented a Front Porch Digital SAMMAsolo. The SAMMAsolo system, which incorporates a SAMMAcleaner, is a compact, single-stream appliance that automatically migrates content from videotape to digital files in multiple formats while also monitoring and quality-controlling the process. The migration preserves source time code and links indexing and technical metadata.